The fun and success of Linux on Intel-based systems inspired Hamish
Macdonald <hamish@border.ocunix.on.ca> and Greg Harp to port it to
another platform: the Amiga. The first version released to the general
public was 0.0.5. While 0.0.8 was current, a few enthusiasts ported
that version to the Atari and the two versions were successfully
merged with 0.9pl3 (this reads version 0.9 patchlevel 3).

After releasing 1.2.13pl3, Hamish handed the coordination of
Linux/m68k over to Roman Hodek <rnhodek@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>. Starting with
Hamish's unfinished 1.3.20 port, Jes Degn Sørensen <Jes.Sorensen@cern.ch>
started to work on integrating the m68k stuff into 1.3. With 1.3.94
the majority of the m68k stuff was put into the official kernel tree.
Work continues to integrate Linux/m68k with the mainstream kernel.
Jes continues to be the maintainer of the kernel.

The present 2.0 series releases are of "production quality" and are
suitable for general use on the Amiga, Atari and a number of VME
platforms. The versions of the 2.1 and 2.2 series are generally as
stable as their counterparts on Intel platforms (probably even more
stable, as there is more testing between releases).